KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Wednesday that is one busy day you've had there! I bet you feel very satisfied with the great results.

I kondo'd a spare double sheet to one of my lovely clients. She damaged one of hers and only has one spare!

I am biding my time. I am desperate to move a model boat from my living room to an alcove in the bedroom. I am sure I have mentioned this before! I am already in trouble because I have moved 2 pictures round, and I have relocated a shell wallhanging.
DH got really cross because it might cause damage to the walls when i knock another picture hanger in (I used the same hanger for all the items but one does need to be moved higher, so any holes will be hidden by the object The walls in our old house are far from pristine, AND any decorating is my job! He overreacted because he was in bad mood (his football team lost!).
So, I have to wait a while longer. It is a shame because i have finally got the living room looking good, after 27 years here :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Shout out to GQ! Are you having fun??
Right, need to kondo some veg into soup.

maryb wrote: »

Is GQ kondoing seed potatoes on her allotment or will there be another instalment of Tales from the Family Homestead?

MMF007 wrote: »

Shout out to GQ! Are you having fun??
Right, need to kondo some veg into soup.

I've been at the parental homestead from mid-aft on Good Friday until just after lunch today, have been reading along with you but couldn't get onto the forum as couldn't remember my log-in! How embarrassing. I even had an email from the mse gods to tell me that 'someone' was trying to access my log in - mailed back admitting that was me!

Back home now. On Friday, Dad drove up to the city and we planted the spuds and did a couple of other things before the rain started, then skedaddled off to the family home. I've not been too well lately (condensed version, nagging hip pain is prolly osteo-arthritis) and haven't felt like doing too much other than hobbling around like a female version of Jake the Peg.

OK, was swigging sherry not rum, but feeling a bit bleugh plus Mum told me she didn't want me pulling stuff around (I'd had a cunning plan to tackle the china cupboard) but that has gone on the back-burner indefinately.

Parental home is (relatively) tidy atm, which surprised me muchly!:rotfl:

We didn't draw the baulks up over the spuds as the soil was wringing wet, it's been raining here pretty much non-stop for a week or more. I shall do that over the next week or so, then Plot1 can mind its business for a fortnight while I show Plot2 some cold steel.

Am pleased to have got a few bits & bobs out of the flat and over to theirs. One of the things was a brand-new-from-a-chazzer potholder, to replace one of theirs which was rather crispy round the edges due to a close encounter with the gas stove. I now have the crispy one, will launder it and add it to the rag pile. Mum very pleased with the new one.

I have also decided that my Berghaus waterproof jacket, from 2011, which has lost its waterproofiness and whose zip is failing, will be discarded. Not before I've got the velcro bits off the zip placket, mark you, but I do use my sewing salvage for other jobs, so it's not justin.

Righty, on with a cuppa and some leftover Easter cake.;)

MMF007 wrote: »

GQ, :hello: glad you have taken it easy for a few days. Hope the hip settles down.

You and me both, hun. GP spoke as if one just chomps on painkillers until one gets to the happy stage of needing a replacement hip. Deep joy. I shall do summat like tai chi/ yoga/ pilates to try and help myself as much as possible. I'm not having a wonky hip, I might need to kick someone's behind and I need to be able to stand on one leg to do that.:rotfl:

Mind you, there are some positives, he did tell me I shouldn't go running. I gave him a look and pointed out I haven't run anywhere since I left school (and I only ran then under duress). Nice to know I have a get-out-of-jail-free card if anyone tried to suggest I take up jogging (mimes spitting with disgust at the very idea).

GQ I know you are tall like me. I've had hip trouble from time to time and apparent!y its caused by the piriformis muscle that controls the lateral movement. If you think it may help there are a number of exercises that help relieve it on 'tinternet very similar to yoga movements. HTH

He got me to lie on the examination table, bent my right leg up at the knee and leaned it in various directions. All were good apart from inward where I yelled with pain.

I have pestered for an X-ray to confirm diagnosis and am awaiting the hospital letter with that appt. I am also under the care of a Bowen Technique pratictioner who is also a physiotherapist and also an Alexander tutor and he wanted me to get an X-ray to eliminate the joint as the cause. Muscles, tendons, fascia, he can deal with but, as he points out, the hip joint itself is a sealed unit and he can't see or reach inside there.:(

I have some exciting exercises to while away the hours. I find pain 24/7 tedious but what really freaks me out is my right leg nearly collapsing under me at times - very disconcerting.

I shall not quail, howsomever, I am a big stroppy woman with a will of iron and I shall overcome.:j